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Monday, May 21, 2012

What ELSE is in the box?

Today we're taking a look at what's in Marissa's boxes. Marissa is in Kindergarten but has done a lot of first grade work this year. Marissa currently has 5 boxes. Come fall she will have quite a few more. As of right now, these are her boxes.

Her first box, like Trent's, is her Calendar Notebook and media coupons along with the pens to fill out her notebook.

Marissa's second box contains her Math. We use singapore math. I love using it. It works for us for many reasons. Marissa has completed level 1A. After she completed it I decided not to start her out on 1B quite yet and to spend some more time working on addition and subtraction facts. She will start 1B in the fall (when she is officially a 1st grader) or when she finishes all of her addition and subtraction fact assignments this summer (which she is nearly done with and May isn't even over yet).

Box number 3 used to hold Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons but she finished it months ago. Currently it holds nothing because her reading assignments are on the computer doing a program called Funnix. When she finishes up with funnix, this box will hold whatever chapter book she is currently reading. Therefore, I just took a picture of the tag on the workbox.

Her next box holds her Handwriting. After learning how to write all the letters, using the Handwriting without tears approach, I moved her into this book by Evan and Moor. I have really liked it. She is reviewing all of the letters right now, then she will do numbers and number words. After that it all becomes copy work. I can already see improvement in her handwriting. She will probably be working in this book until the end of first grade. If she does finish is up before then her handwriting will just be that in her other subjects.

For some reason, unbeknownst to me, she chooses to keep random objects in this drawer.

Marissa's last box holds her Science book. This year we used Elemental Science's Biology for the Grammar Stage. I keep the two older girls together on Science and History and split the difference in their grade levels right now. We have really enjoyed this curriculum. Next year they will be doing Earth Science and Astronomy by the same company. I'm planning on sticking with this company all the way through High School, that's how much I love it!

Here is a close up picture of her section of workboxes. You can see that the bottom drawer has 3 tags on it. In general (and this will become more apparent when I show you Audrey's boxes) I put the tag for whatever is actually IN the box on the left of the drawer. Tags on the right of the drawer are a visual reminder of subjects that need to be done but don't need a drawer. On the bottom drawer she has science (which is actually in the drawer), a tag for history (which was a flop this year but will hopefully be better next year), and a tag for English (which we began with but thought our curriculum was so dumb that we stopped doing).

Next year Marissa will have the following boxes: General School supply box, Calendar Notebook box, Math, Handwriting, Science, History, and Geography.
She will also have tags for Reading and Piano

So there's a peek into the school life of my kindergartener. She is one bright little cookie and catches on to almost everything like lightning. I feel very blessed to be able to homeschool her where I can allow her to excel in her academics and spend lots of time on character training to help with her temper.

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She's a stay-at-home, homeschool mom of 4 kids. She loves reading, listening to music, playing board games, and hanging out with family and friends.
He works at Teleperformance and is going to school at the OWATC to get into graphic design.